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Quotes About Whale

Lots of business owners spend their lives trying to land the whale - the single, massive, brand-name account that will fatten the top line and bestow instant credibility. But big customers make me nervous.
~ Jason Fried
With Whale, I'm like the first user. My feedback is around my experience as a content creator.
~ Justin Kan
The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.
~ Pierce Brosnan
Divine was like a 400-pound beached whale. He was one of my favorite leading ladies, I've got to tell you. He was really terrific.
~ Tab Hunter
In 'Finding Dory,' I play a whale shark named Destiny who can't swim very well. We're both extremely clumsy!
~ Kaitlin Olson
I really am part whale. I want to do a movie like 'The Incredible Mr. Limpet' and join a family of whales.
~ John Pinette
I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most children's teddy bear. I took it with me everywhere. I slept with it. I couldn't live without my whale.
~ Skylar Grey
On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s.
~ Lewis Gordon Pugh
Before reaching Grassy Butte, though, Dad spied a farmhouse with two pumps in the drive and a red-and-white sign out front saying DALE'S OIL COMPANY. Another sign said CLOSED, but a light was on in the house and Dad pulled in, saying, I believe we might prevail on Dale. What do you think? Prevail on Dale, I repeated to Swede. To make a sale, she added. And if we fail, we'll whale on Dale-- Till he needs braille! Will you guys desist? Dad asked.
~ Leif Enger
Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.
~ Aldous Huxley
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
~ Herman Melville
El verdadero dolor es inefable, nos deja sordos y mudos, está más allá de toda descripción y todo consuelo. El verdadero dolor es una ballena demasiado grande para poder ser arponeada.
~ Rosa Montero
El verdadero dolor es una ballena demasiado grande para poder ser arponeada.
~ Rosa Montero
Everybody has fishes in their stomach so does Jiko. But the biggest fish of all belonged to Haruki#1 and it was more like a whale. After she has become a nun, she learned how to open up her heart so that the whale could swim away.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Every breath I take fills my throat with the infants of a thousand sea creatures, filtered by the bioscreens installed by the clever men who made me what I am today. I am not a baleen whale, but the krill and larvae I catch and keep in this manner will help to replace the calories my body burns to keep me warm this far below the sea.
~ Joe Hill
But he is learning. It is as if he is learning all over again how to put the world into words. A tree is an open hand shaken twice by your right ear; whale is three fingers dipped through a sea made by the opposite forearm. The sky is two hands touched above the head, then swept apart, as though a rift has formed in the clouds and you are swimming through them, into heaven.
~ Anthony Doerr
To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet.
~ Mark Carwardine
I'm more of a fisherman as opposed to a scientist perhaps and chasing the whale. But I've had some success.
~ Matt Walsh
I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.
~ Paul Watson
Misschien leert ze er toch van, dacht hij, en gaat ze deze keer niet meteen als een gek in de aanval. En misschien dat die grote blauwe walvis, die volgens de Skandiërs zorgt voor eb en vloed, ineens uit de golven omhoog komt springen, vleugels krijgt en een rondje om het schip vliegt.
~ John Flanagan
Hurricane whale cruiser, which Karen's friend Ronnie
~ John Glatt
I heard that, too. Nope. I'm an animal behaviorist. Here to assess recent changes in communication patterns. You in whale processing?
~ Elizabeth Bear
For the first time in my life I tried whale. It was very chewy and quite fatty. My friend had had whale before, so I knew it would be quite blubbery. It was delicious. I loved it. It was smoked, so it had a lovely kind of tangy taste to it. We had it a couple of nights. I was won over. It was very yummy.
~ Rose Leslie
Nevertheless, Rouen merchants who sold craspoix to the English paid high tariffs at London Bridge, which suggests this salted whale blubber was a luxury product in England. This would not be the last time the food of French peasants was sold as a treat for wealthy Englishmen.
~ Mark Kurlansky